An oily film reflecting a spectrum of colours on the surface of Syncrude’s largest tailings pond, the 13 square km Mildred Lake Settling Basin. It contains 400 million cubic metres of fine tailings.
The Syncrude Project is a Joint Venture undertaking among Canadian Oil Sands Limited, ConocoPhillips Oil Sand Partnership II, Imperial Oil Resources, Mocal Energy Limited, Murphy Oil Company Ltd., Nexen Oil Sands Partnership, and Petro-Canada Oil and Gas, as the project owners, and Syncrude as the project operator. For more information see: http://www.syncrude.ca/users/folder.asp
